Proto Cryptid
@ogsaltbae.bsky.social
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Queer SFF writer.
Read my work: cslytal.wordpress.com
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Queer SFF writer.
Read my work: cslytal.wordpress.com
Buy me a coffee: ko-fi.com/cslytal
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Proto Cryptid
@ogsaltbae.bsky.social
· May 3
A sense of urgency
Words and images, posted for free, for whoever feels called to read them.
wp.me
I’m sharing my creative writing on a new blog, for free. I wrote about why in the first post. wp.me/pgvcdp-c
The Christmas Carol but it’s Mr Rogers, Bill Nye, LeVar Burton, and Bob Ross all telling republicans “I’m not angry, just disappointed”
July 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The Christmas Carol but it’s Mr Rogers, Bill Nye, LeVar Burton, and Bob Ross all telling republicans “I’m not angry, just disappointed”
And why do I have a feeling there will be a precipitous change in demographics among those remaining 😒
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a 20% reduction of four-star officers.
Hegseth Orders 20 Percent Cut in Military’s Senior Ranks
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has already fired a raft of military leaders, many of them women and people of color, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
www.nytimes.com
May 6, 2025 at 1:00 AM
And why do I have a feeling there will be a precipitous change in demographics among those remaining 😒
I think I’ll be seeing that vicious woman’s smug face and nastyass cheroot in my mind’s eye for the rest of my life.
May 4, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I think I’ll be seeing that vicious woman’s smug face and nastyass cheroot in my mind’s eye for the rest of my life.
Thinking about writing up an essay about UBI in fiction, mostly because I had my semi-annual “randomly remembering how annoyed The Expanse books’ (otherwise a great series) depiction of it annoyed me” event
May 3, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Thinking about writing up an essay about UBI in fiction, mostly because I had my semi-annual “randomly remembering how annoyed The Expanse books’ (otherwise a great series) depiction of it annoyed me” event
I’m sharing my creative writing on a new blog, for free. I wrote about why in the first post. wp.me/pgvcdp-c
A sense of urgency
Words and images, posted for free, for whoever feels called to read them.
wp.me
May 3, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I’m sharing my creative writing on a new blog, for free. I wrote about why in the first post. wp.me/pgvcdp-c
Really tempted to pick up remastered Oblivion, but not sure if I want to do PC or console.
May 3, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Really tempted to pick up remastered Oblivion, but not sure if I want to do PC or console.
May 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Ok bear with me, this post is made with 100% respectful eyes.
You know that subset of Pride and Prejudice girlies whose motto is the most attractive thing a woman can do is wear less clothes and the most attractive thing a man can do is wear more? Well…
#dimension20 #titantakedown
You know that subset of Pride and Prejudice girlies whose motto is the most attractive thing a woman can do is wear less clothes and the most attractive thing a man can do is wear more? Well…
#dimension20 #titantakedown
May 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Ok bear with me, this post is made with 100% respectful eyes.
You know that subset of Pride and Prejudice girlies whose motto is the most attractive thing a woman can do is wear less clothes and the most attractive thing a man can do is wear more? Well…
#dimension20 #titantakedown
You know that subset of Pride and Prejudice girlies whose motto is the most attractive thing a woman can do is wear less clothes and the most attractive thing a man can do is wear more? Well…
#dimension20 #titantakedown
Damn. I was saving up all my zingers for when I came back here and now I can’t remember any of ‘em.
May 2, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Damn. I was saving up all my zingers for when I came back here and now I can’t remember any of ‘em.
Once in undergrad I wrote about how a character in a Flannery O’Connor short story was using antebellum symbology in all her rhetoric and the professor said it was an angle she’d never noticed and she’d teach it as part of the lesson from then on and honestly I peaked
May 2, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Once in undergrad I wrote about how a character in a Flannery O’Connor short story was using antebellum symbology in all her rhetoric and the professor said it was an angle she’d never noticed and she’d teach it as part of the lesson from then on and honestly I peaked
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Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
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Dear Gov of NY:
You're against masking for health reasons but these jerks can mask up???
You're against masking for health reasons but these jerks can mask up???
Not sure if this has been shared here yet, but this is video of Rumeysa Ozturk's arrest posted by WCVB. It's terrifying.
March 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Dear Gov of NY:
You're against masking for health reasons but these jerks can mask up???
You're against masking for health reasons but these jerks can mask up???
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Make this go viral!
Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
March 26, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Make this go viral!
Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
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hi, cis people!
you might just now be hearing about this. there’s a thread in here with guidance. we’re down to 16 days and i have to believe more than 5,000 people give a shit if ~250,000 of us could lose our access to healthcare.
tap in. scroll up. help out. please. ⬇️
you might just now be hearing about this. there’s a thread in here with guidance. we’re down to 16 days and i have to believe more than 5,000 people give a shit if ~250,000 of us could lose our access to healthcare.
tap in. scroll up. help out. please. ⬇️
oh! one more thing!
the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential benefit is open til april 11. proposed rules are supposed to have more time than that but—shocker!—the comment period here is shorter.
you have 19 days, as of this post. please comment.💜🏳️⚧️
the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential benefit is open til april 11. proposed rules are supposed to have more time than that but—shocker!—the comment period here is shorter.
you have 19 days, as of this post. please comment.💜🏳️⚧️
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; Marketplace Integrity and Affordability
This proposed rule would revise standards relating to past-due premium payments; exclude Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipients from the definition of "lawfully present"; the evidentiary st...
www.federalregister.gov
March 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
hi, cis people!
you might just now be hearing about this. there’s a thread in here with guidance. we’re down to 16 days and i have to believe more than 5,000 people give a shit if ~250,000 of us could lose our access to healthcare.
tap in. scroll up. help out. please. ⬇️
you might just now be hearing about this. there’s a thread in here with guidance. we’re down to 16 days and i have to believe more than 5,000 people give a shit if ~250,000 of us could lose our access to healthcare.
tap in. scroll up. help out. please. ⬇️
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Killing public media is a part of Project 2025 and today, Marjorie Taylor Greene has hauled the heads of NPR and PBS before the House to answer her accusations that they’re “biased.” Republicans are mad that they fact check. And …🧵⬇️
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
WATCH LIVE: NPR, PBS heads answer lawmakers' allegations of bias
The CEOs of the largest U.S. public broadcasting networks are appearing before a House subcommittee chaired by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.
www.npr.org
March 26, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Killing public media is a part of Project 2025 and today, Marjorie Taylor Greene has hauled the heads of NPR and PBS before the House to answer her accusations that they’re “biased.” Republicans are mad that they fact check. And …🧵⬇️
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE FROM EVERY DEMOCRAT IN OFFICE. Thank you, Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury
THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO SEE FROM EVERY DEMOCRAT IN OFFICE. Thank you, Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury
YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko
youtube.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:11 AM
And now I’m in that post-book funk where my emotions are all the hell over the place and I’m just angrily stomping around my my apartment because there’s no more book.
March 26, 2025 at 12:16 AM
And now I’m in that post-book funk where my emotions are all the hell over the place and I’m just angrily stomping around my my apartment because there’s no more book.
Just finished When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi and. Wow.
March 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Just finished When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi and. Wow.
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March 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I hope elected dems realize that the best time to utterly halt all cooperation with the administration was in January but the second best time is now.
March 25, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I hope elected dems realize that the best time to utterly halt all cooperation with the administration was in January but the second best time is now.
Back in November I was stuck in line to vote in front of one of those charming middle aged white men who can’t resist co-opting a public space when they have a captive audience.
He was going on about P Duffy and how it’s always “them democrats” who are predators.
He was going on about P Duffy and how it’s always “them democrats” who are predators.
Meet Tim Nolan, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman in Kentucky.
March 25, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Back in November I was stuck in line to vote in front of one of those charming middle aged white men who can’t resist co-opting a public space when they have a captive audience.
He was going on about P Duffy and how it’s always “them democrats” who are predators.
He was going on about P Duffy and how it’s always “them democrats” who are predators.
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Meet Tim Nolan, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman in Kentucky.
March 25, 2025 at 4:07 AM
You know what I realized Hegseth reminds me of recently? The unbearably mediocre husband in a soul crushing 90s sitcom.
March 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
You know what I realized Hegseth reminds me of recently? The unbearably mediocre husband in a soul crushing 90s sitcom.
Oh yeah in other news, NC passed a bill to no longer require a permit or safety training for concealed carry. I feel so safe 🙃
March 25, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Oh yeah in other news, NC passed a bill to no longer require a permit or safety training for concealed carry. I feel so safe 🙃